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Raunchy E-mails, too Much Drinking and Dirty Dancing - Teaching Note: A trilogy of sexual harassment cases covering personal freedom, respect and decency
Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-6-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision AnalysisThe document "Raunchy E-mails, Too Much Drinking and Dirty Dancing" presents three cases related to sexual harassment that occurred in a leading consulting firm, a retail company and a private bank, respectively. In the first case, a group of male consultants prepared an e-mail including the name, photo, and department affiliation of about 12 female colleagues and asking other people to evaluate the attractiveness of each photo i...Starting at €0.00
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Raunchy E-mails, Too much Drinking and Dirty Dancing: A trilogy of sexual harassment cases across personal freedom, respect and decency
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-175-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis"Raunchy E-mails, Too Much Drinking and Dirty Dancing" presents three sexual harassment-related cases which took place in a leading consulting firm, a retail company and a private bank, respectively. In the first case, a group of male consultants prepared an e-mail featuring the name, photo and department affiliation of about 12 female colleagues and asking other people to evaluate the attractiveness of each photo in order to obtain a "top ten"...Starting at €8.20
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Raunchy E-mails, Too much Drinking and Dirty Dancing: A trilogy of sexual harassment cases across personal freedom, respect and decency (Portuguese Version, Portugal)
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-175-PPBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis"Raunchy E-mails, Too Much Drinking and Dirty Dancing" presents three sexual harassment-related cases which took place in a leading consulting firm, a retail company and a private bank, respectively. In the first case, a group of male consultants prepared an e-mail featuring the name, photo and department affiliation of about 12 female colleagues and asking other people to evaluate the attractiveness of each photo in order to obtain a "top ten"...Starting at €8.20
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Addiopizzo Travel - Teaching Note: Fighting Mafia through market-based strategies
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, Tommaso; La Cara, BarbaraTeaching Note BET-14-EEntrepreneurshipThe case "Addiopizzo Travel" can be taught as a stand-alone case or as a complement and follow-up to the case titled "Addiopizzo: Mafia, Anti-Mafia or Hiding in the Grey Area" (BE-172-E). The case study traces the history of Addiopizzo Travel, a travel agency and tour operator founded in Sicily (Italy) in 2010 by three young social entrepreneurs previously involved in the activities of "Addiopizzo," an NGO devoted to the fight against mafia brib...Starting at €0.00
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Guidant Corporation: ¿Divulgar o no divulgar Dilemas en el sector de los marcapasos
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-168Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation es una empresa de reciente creación en el campo de la alta tecnología que se dedica a la fabricación de dispositivos médicos como marcapasos, desfibriladores y sistemas de endoprótesis coronarias. Hacia mediados de 2002, Guidant descubre que algunos de sus marcapasos y desfibriladores que ya se han vendido e implantado en pacientes presentaban fallos y podrían no enviar la descarga eléctrica cuando fuera necesario. La compañía...Starting at €8.20
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What Does It Mean Being a Decent Boss (B)
Ramus, Tommaso; Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-190-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn March 2007, less than one year after his appointment as CEO, René Obermann received an e-mail from a 48-year old technician working in the T-Com Berlin department. The letter was carbon copied to some members of the Board of Management, union representatives and some other employees. It rapidly spread throughout the organization and become viral in Germany. The following is an extract of the letter: Your continuous messages to the workforce wi...Starting at €5.74
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¿Tiene un precio la vida humana : Algunas consideraciones sobre el sector de la ingenería civil
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ruiz, José MaríaTechnical Note BEN-133Innovation and Change¿Tiene un precio la vida humana? Aunque la mayoría de la gente está de acuerdo en que la vida humana no debe tener un valor monetario, un examen crítico de los modelos adoptados por los legisladores (policy makers) y los profesionales en el campo de la ingeniería, y concretamente en algunas áreas del sector de la ingeniería civil, muestran cómo, a veces, éstos se ven obligados a poner un precio a la vida humana en los procesos de toma de decision...Starting at €8.20
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The Responsible Manager (Spanish version)
Prahalad, C.K.Article HBS-F1001GLeadership and People ManagementManagers must remember that they are the custodians of society's most powerful institutions, and as such they must hold themselves to a higher standard. They must strive to achieve success with responsibility. He offers 11 specific pieces of advice intended to spur his listeners to reexamine their values before plunging into everyday routines. Among them are 1) Display a commitment to learning and developing yourself. 2) Put personal performance...Starting at €8.20
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Serving the World's Poor, Profitably (Spanish version)
Prahalad, C.K.; Hammond, AllenArticle HBS-R0209CEconomicsBy stimulating commerce and development at the bottom of the economic pyramid, multinationals could radically improve the lives of billions of people and help create a more stable, less dangerous world. Achieving this goal does not require MNCs to spearhead global social-development initiatives for charitable purposes. They need only act in their own self-interest. How? The authors lay out the business case for entering the world's poorest market...Starting at €8.20
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Whistleblowing Systems and Policies
Potito, Gianmichele; Aznar, Enrique; Vaccaro, AntoninoTechnical Note BEN-139-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis technical note provides some basic information about the functioning of intra- and interfirm whistleblowing systems. This work adopts a managerial perspective and not a legal one, so it does not enter into the legislative details of each country because of their complexity and their continuous evolution.Starting at €8.20